Turning CO2 into Opportunity
Stepping up to the climate change challenge and playing our part in fulfilling the vision, we looked for innovative ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Our Carbon Dioxide Recovery Plant is an innovative solution that reduces QAFAC’s total emissions and meets a business need by reusing the recovered CO2 in our methanol production. The CDR plant is the first plant to recover carbon dioxide from a methanol plant and re-inject it into methanol production. It is the largest plant of its kind. Moreover, the plant will recover 30 m3 of water per hour from flue gas, which will be re-used in the production process. This is expected to reduce the company’s total water intake by 16% based on the latest intake figures.
By commissioning the Carbon Dioxide Recovery (CDR) plant in 2014, QAFAC has demonstrated a world- class example of achieving sustainable growth of production, i.e. utilizing production resources for maximum efficiency whilst simultaneously avoiding significant emissions of greenhouse gas CO2 into the atmosphere. With the installation of the CDR plant, QAFAC became self-sufficient in generating CO2 gas, which is used as input material for methanol production. Replacing purchased CO2 with its internally generated gas. In addition to increasing methanol production by 250 MT/day and reducing 500 MTPD of CO2 emissions to atmosphere and converting it to a clean fuel